Episode 72. Sleeper Hit: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Freddy Krueger may be the man of our dreams but what about his creator, the studio that sustained him, his victims and the 1980s? Andrea and Alex dive into their nightmares and beyond to explore the lasting effects of one of horror’s most beloved franchises. Class of 2019 T-shirts are available now at Twisted Ts! Salem […]

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0:00.0	The Oh, The Oh, The Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror Podcasting from the
0:58.6	Horrid Halls of Academia. I'm Alex West with Andrea Subasati and we hope you got a really good night's sleep before you dive into this episode just as we are about to dive into this episode and the next episode because as we talked about last month we're doing the
1:14.5	nightmare on Elm Street franchise. I didn't sleep well last night. No? I'm
1:19.2	nervous. It's this is a big topic and you guys have been really excited about it, which is great.
1:26.6	That's what we want to see.
1:27.6	We want to know that the stuff we're choosing to do is going to mean something to you are very important and dear listeners but there's been a lot of
1:35.8	excitement about this one so yeah a little trepidacious this franchise is huge it is so
1:41.9	near and dear to all of our hearts and there's been a lot of
1:45.0	ink spilled on it. There's so much out there already, but we're going to try and bring our own perspective
1:49.9	into things. There's a lot to talk about. There's a lot to talk about there's a lot to love and I really loved
1:54.6	revisiting these films I don't know about you but it had been a long time since I
1:58.2	saw a nightmare on Elm Street like the original nightmare on Elm Street yeah
2:01.1	same and you know I'd say out of, you know, what is generally considered the big three in Horror,
2:07.2	which is Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday, 13th, and Halloween, even though I love each of them,
2:12.4	Nightmare on Elm Street may be my least favorite.
2:16.7	Wow, it is my top.
2:18.3	Is it your top of those three?
2:19.5	I really really like these movies, but I just I love that sheer insanity of Halloween more just
2:26.2	the bizarreness of it I kind of gravitate more towards it's funny because it's the
2:29.9	bizarreness of Nightmare on Elm Street that I love. It's the freedom, the creative freedom
2:34.2	that is allowed in the use of dreams
2:37.0	and like anything can happen.
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